In the early summer of 2023, as part of a virtual gathering to consider Phosphorescence of Thought, Earth Is Best, and The Hidden Eyes of Things, I gave a reading on Zoom.
If you’re curious, you can access the reading here. At the prompt, the password is: x%pskg7j
Ad Astra Per Aspera: Selinger, Scroggins, O’Leary, and Bettridge, Louisville, 2011 (?)—a while ago for sure.
The estimable Joel Bettridge has published a penetrating book in the Routledge Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Literature series entitled Avant-Garde Pieties: Aesthetics, Race, and the Renewal of Innovative Poetics. The fourth chapter, entitled “Case Studies,” includes a reading of Phosphorescence of Thought in relation to Claudia Rankine’s Don’t Let Me Be Lonely and Kenneth Goldsmith’s The Weather. Strange bedfellows! But Bettridge’s reading is unusually astute. He really gets the poem. Here’s a PDF of his reading of my poem.
Bettridge on Phosphorescence of Thought.
And if you’re interested, Avant-Garde Pieties.
A major review of Verge Books by Kylan Rice at West Branch. Rice treats in detail Alicia Cohen's Coherer and Joseph Donahue's Dark Church, along with Verge co-captain John Tipton's translation of Aeschylus's Seven Against Thebes, and my own Phosphorescence of Thought. A feast of a review!
In other Verge news, Tirzah Goldenberg's first book, Aleph, has at last been published. Get yourself a copy!